Senior OT Networks Engineer

Since its creation in 2014, Harbour has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse independent oil and gas companies.  Today, Harbour is producing c.450,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with significant production in Norway, the UK, Germany, Argentina and North Africa. Harbour benefits from competitive operating costs and resilient margins, and a broad set of growth options including near-infrastructure opportunities in Norway, unconventional scalable opportunities in Argentina and conventional offshore projects in Mexico and Indonesia. With low GHG emissions intensity and a leading CO2 storage position in Europe, Harbour remains committed to producing oil and gas safely and responsibly to help meet the world’s energy needs. Harbour is headquartered in London with approximately 5,000 staff and contractors across its operations and offices. 

Ours is an inclusive workplace where individuals can bring their whole selves to their job and feel recognised for the value they add. We are committed to creating a genuinely inclusive and supportive working environment to ensure everyone has a positive experience at work.

At Harbour Energy, we aim to recruit, retain and promote our people based on their unique skills, regardless of race, gender or background. We need excellent people to help shape and develop the future of our company. Could this be you?

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Purpose of Role:    

• The Senior OT Network Engineer is responsible for the leadership, management, architecture & design to deliver OT Network services across all business units with the aim to consistently meet current and future requirements of the business. It supports business objectives by providing safe, secure and reliable OT networks on Harbours 3 and 3.5 levels as per purdue model to ensure the sustainability and efficiency of OT services while adhering to cyber security requirements and Industry standards.
• The role is responsible for the creation and maintenance of both operational and security related documentation (incl. processes, procedures, design & configuration and network topology diagrams).
• The role ensures that the appropriate teams across all Business Units and 3rd party vendors protect the integrity and performance of the Harbour Energy’s OT Network.
• Key requirement of the role is to work with the OT Manager and Senior OT operations engineer to improve ways of working, demonstrated by results such as the level of reliability and security 
• Additionally, the role works in line with the Senior OT operations engineer to define the resilience and disaster recovery strategies.

Critical Responsibilities:    

• Ensure that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and Harbour Energy HSEQ procedures               

Ethics and Compliance Responsibilities:    

• Ensure that all activities and behaviours are carried out in accordance with Harbour Energy’s Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures, and to complete any compulsory compliance training as required

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence Level:   

• Inputs and adds to the execution of the IS strategy and roadmap, develops relevant functional objectives for the area
• Is responsible to the OT Manager to work with supply chain to support OT operations sourcing strategy and partner relationship management in decision making and planning
• Supports the OT Manager with development of the annual OT operations budget from a network and security perspective
• Supports the OT Manager and regional business units by delivering architectural designs for all supporting OT Networks
• Assist and develop a comprehensive and integrated ITSM landscape and associated service levels, based on best-practice processes, disciplines, and related toolsets
• Ensures asset inventories within the OT organisation's ecosystem are kept evergreen
• Is responsible for the on-going security, performance, stability and maintenance of OT network services
• Works with the OT security & OT operations teams to ensure security tooling is fully deployed and operational across the whole estate with appropriate reporting, governance and KPI’s established.
• Ensures the adoption of (and commitment towards) service improvements
• Responsible for ensuring OT operational capabilities achieve regulatory and statutory compliance requirements by adhering to OT standards, governance processes and procedures.
• May be required to provide out of hours support via an on-call rota
• May be required to travel internationally on an ad-hoc basis

Critical Skills Qualifications Experience, etc.: 

• Understanding of the purdue enterprise reference architecture and how it is applied in OT networking 
• Excellent network design & architecture skills 
• Experience of leading teams, with the ability to communicate the IS operations objectives and motivate staff
• Strong Industry, domain-specific knowledge of the IT/OT boundary and how it connects to enterprise networks and Industrial control systems.
• Experience of developing and implementing process improvements
• Self-motivated, pro-active and creative with a willingness to go the extra mile to achieve important goals
• Clear analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work under pressure with both internal and external parties
• Experience of delivering governance practices to track and measure the quality of services, and maintain service improvement plans
• Strong third-party management skills, working closely with sourcing and vendor managers driving solutions and decision making on products and services
• Excellent verbal, written and negotiation skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and technologies to the business
• Experience of OT Network support and device hardening–WAN, LAN, NxtGen Firewalls etc
• Previous experience of working with a diverse and multi vendor support model
• Experience and involvement in internal or external audits in accordance with relevant regulatory standards 

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Inclusive recruitment is a vital part of our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. Whatever your background, if you feel you need an adjustment during our selection process to suit your needs, please let us know, and we will be happy to help.

For further information or support on any of these points, please reach out to us at careers@harbourenergy.com